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Core Database Internal Engineer

Salesforce San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$117,200 - $223,900 annually

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Description

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Core Database Internal Engineer to join a team responsible for architecting, developing, and testing the next generation of RDBMS.

The ideal candidate will have a strong database internals and distributed systems background, with experience designing and developing robust and highly scalable software products.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team to design and develop core database system functionalities.
  • Come up with new architecture and design to solve complex scalability problems.
  • Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.
  • Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defect.
  • Actively participate in release and deployment process.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years industry experience in system or database internals programming.
  • 4+ years technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platform or systems.
  • Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design.
  • Strong Java or C programming skills.

Benefits:

  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, vision
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchasing program

The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $246,000 annually.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • PostgreSQL software development experience
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